The Wedding Dance In The Open Air

William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)



Disciplined by the artist
to go round
and round

in holiday gear
a riotously gay rabble of
peasants and their

ample-bottomed doxies
fills
the market square

featured by the women in
their starched
white headgear

they prance or go openly
toward the wood's
edges

round and around in
rough shoes and
farm breeches

mouths agape
Oya !
kicking up their heels

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 16, 2023

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Scheme XAA BXC DDC EXB XDD EXD XXD
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 338
Words 62
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3

William Carlos Williams

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